WRC News Toyota tests 2025-spec WRC prototypes in Croatia Toyota has tested potential 2025 specification Rally1 and Rally2 cars in the last week. The cars both ran in Croatia as part of Toyota’s wider… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 5, 2024 3 min
WRC News Why Solberg was racing Kenya’s deputy president When the deputy president of Kenya comes to take on WRC2 pacesetter Oliver Solberg at his own game, you know the country’s government is taking… Read more by Mark Paulson April 5, 2024 3 min
WRC Opinion Is the WRC’s new points system working? The World Rally Championship’s new-for-2024 points system has been one of the talking points of the season to date. It’s a topic that seems to… Read more by DirtFish Staff April 5, 2024 5 min
WRC Photos Friends reunited after 20 years Twenty years ago, a pair of fresh-faced Frenchmen were on a mission on the stages around Antalya, Turkey. The third round of the 2004 Junior… Read more by Stephen Brunsdon April 4, 2024
WRC News Hankook set to test asphalt Rally1 rubber Hankook will real-time test its asphalt-specification tires in Croatia for the first time this week. The Seoul-based firm ran its i*pike snow tire during the… Read more by David Evans April 4, 2024 2 min
WRC Podcast Is the WRC points system inequitable? The World Rally Championship’s new-for-2024 ‘Super Sunday’ is not a level playing field. That’s Colin Clark’s belief in a typically opinionated episode of SPIN, The… Read more by DirtFish Media April 3, 2024 10 min +
Rally Features Lancia’s rally return has an asterisk but the hype is real Calma, calma. Leave the Martini stripes and black Wayfarers where they are. For now. I know it’s difficult. We’ve all waited so long for white… Read more by David Evans April 3, 2024 3 min
Rally News Lancia confirms it is working on a return to rallying It’s the news our world has wanted to report for more than 30 years. And now Lancia has confirmed to DirtFish that it is actively… Read more by David Evans April 3, 2024 2 min
WRC News Latvala: TV graphics update needed to avoid WRC points confusion For the second consecutive event, the World Rally Championship’s new-for-2024 points system had a significant impact on the outcome of Safari Rally Kenya. In Sweden,… Read more by Mark Paulson April 3, 2024 3 min
WRC News Hyundai abandoned fix for Lappi’s Safari fault in 2023 DirtFish can reveal Esapekka Lappi’s retirement from last week’s Safari Rally Kenya was likely caused by a homologation problem last year. The teams are permitted… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 3 min
WRC News Mikkelsen to contest Piemonte rally in Hyundai Rally1 Hyundai driver Andreas Mikkelsen will contest next week’s Rally Regione Piemonte as part of his preparation for his next World Rally Championship outing in Croatia…. Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 2 min
WRC News Kankkunen: Rovanperä will come back even better in 2025 Four-time World Rally Champion Juha Kankkunen has warned that his countryman Kalle Rovanperä will come back from his part-program 2024 season an even better driver. The… Read more by David Evans April 2, 2024 2 min
WRC News What we learned from Safari Rally Kenya 2024 Unless your name was Kalle Rovanperä, if you were a World Rally Championship driver competing on Safari Rally Kenya, you ran into trouble at least… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay April 1, 2024 5 min
WRC Features How Rovanperä rode the rocks to rule the Safari Friday As the cars departed the south-bound side of the Nairobi Expressway, passing Kenya’s parliament building, heading for the Kenyatta International Convention Center, the sense… Read more by David Evans April 1, 2024 10 min +
WRC News Tänak: ‘WRC not under control’ Ott Tänak has been tricky at times in the last couple of years. There’s been a truculence born out of frustration with his working environment…. Read more by David Evans April 1, 2024 3 min
WRC News Why Lappi didn’t want to drive a Safari Saturday Esapekka Lappi was put through the wringer by Safari Rally Kenya. Anything that could go wrong, did go wrong. On Friday, his gearbox literally exploded,… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 31, 2024 2 min
WRC News Rovanperä takes dominant Safari Rally victory Kalle Rovanperä scored an imperious victory on Safari Rally Kenya, running away at the front as his World Rally Championship rivals repeatedly ran into trouble… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 31, 2024 3 min
WRC News More drama for Hyundai drivers on Safari Rally Thierry Neuville’s hopes of picking up maximum Sunday points on Safari Rally Kenya have been curtailed by an impact with a rock, which has broken… Read more by Alasdair Lindsay March 31, 2024 2 min
